PERCEIVED PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL INFLUENCES ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENT-PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH CAREERS

To assess possible influences on the professional success of child and adolescent psychiatry investigators, all 187 physician-first authors of research posters presented at 4 annual meetings of the American Aca demy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry were asked to complete a quest ionnaire. Responses numbered 147 (79%), with 80% (117/147) spontaneous ly naming one or move workplace factors, such as excessive clinical, a dministrative, or teaching demands, as hindrances to their success as researchers. The most important hindrances and facilitating factors ar e discussed and suggestions ave made to promote the development of res earch investigators in child and adolescent psychiatry.